The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-09

A RICHMOND, Va, machine shop
has, according to the Richmond Dis
patch, Just completed a cotton har-
vester that will gather cotton from the
stalks and put it in bags as the ma
chine is drawn by horse power along
the cotton row. 1t is estimated that
it will pick about 80 per cent. Of the
open cotton, and during a day will
pick from 5000 to $500 pounds.
The Tuscaloosa, Ala, Coal, Iron
and Land Company have closed the
purchase from Mr.. B. Friedman of
$4,000 acres of caal land lying near
that place.
The stock of the Tuscaloosa Gala }
Coal, Iron and Land Company, al.
ready commands 15 per cent. pre-
MUM,
The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) cotton mills
has declared cash dividend of 20 per
cent. out of the net earnings of the
past year.
KNOXVILLE Tribune: 'Booms" are
udpkCAOuo kuluOo " AhNOot-
ments. 1t may not be long before
additional deals in railroad stocks
demonstrate that some OF the sdvsn-
tages supposed to have been gained by
late movements have only fictitious
value.
CAGE OF STEEL: The two coke
furnaces to be erected at Admission,
Ala, will be the largest and most COM
pltts in every modern appointment,
OF any furnaces ever built in the South !;
and further, nearly the entire produc.
ton of 100000 tons of iron will be
used in Admission by a large works,
the erection of VIII CHI will be COM
menced as soon as suitable location
is secured.
THE nail factory at Brierfeld, Ala f,
ships 400 kegs daily.
THIRTEEN new electric lights will be
erected in Selma, Ala, at an early
date. All gas lights are to be dis
posed of.
ATLANTA, Ga, claims that in five
years it has doubled its shops aud
factories and tfebled its capital in
vested.
A TON OF palmetto is to be cent
North from Sanford, Fla, TO be manu-
featured into paper, as a test Of that
material for printing paper.
ONE instance of the increasing pros
perity OF the South is evidenced by the
fact that within the past year Chstta.
nooqa, Tenn, has built over 1000
houses.
A FEW furnaces will not make city.
We need other industries, and more
than all, we need boom in the rural
district on the subject of farming. He
who tills the earth is the greatest fac.
tor in all substantial booms.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch says a corps
of engineers has been sent to Birds
Point, Mo-, opposite Cairo, to recon-
hotter the country norihward, in the
interest OF the st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas Railway. The party will move
up the west side of The Mississippi
river till they reach Grand Tower,
where they will separate, and one
half of them come up on the east side
of the river to East st. Louis.
ETHE management of the st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Railroad have
but little hopes of finding a desirable
route on the west side of the river,
because of the great cost of securing
an entrance to st. Louis. 1t is esti-
mated that 1t would cost about s., 000,-
600 to bring their line from South st.
Louis to the union depot in this city.
NEW ORLEANS Times: Up to a few
years ago the fishing interests Of the
gulf were purely local, and the fish
and bivalves caught were entirely
consumed here and few shipped away.
OF late, however, shipments OF oys-
tors, both in the shell and canned,
shrimp and fish OF all kinds, to the
North and West have been very large.
THE great Achison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company is build.
ing at this time new and indepsnd-
emit line from it's Kansas City proper
ties to Chicago, and is believed to be
behind what appears to be a new road
from Kansas to st. Louis. 1t is max
ing many extensions in Kansas, and
is building line through the Indian
Territory, which will enable it to run
to Galveston on its own track by the
LIST Of Msy.
THE opening up Of new line be-
tween St. Louis and Chicago will be
regarded with appreciation, and that
line, which will be known as the st.
Louis and Chicago, will commence
running through trains into the union
depot, st. Louis, at once.
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AT,the Chicago meeting of the Gem
trail Traffic Association it will be pro-
posed to appoint commission Of FIVE
able and thoroughly practical railroad
men to represent the railroad interests
OF the nation before the government
commissioners to be appointed to carry
the new law.into effect. The propos..
ton is the idea OF Geo r. Blanchard,
Commissioner Of the Central Ira ffic
Association, and it is proposed that
this commission be vested with the
power TO act for the railroads and to
discuss all questions in the nature Of
complaints which may be brought be-
fore the government commissioners.
The New Orleans Picdu.Re rays that
beside the New Orleans Pacific and
the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific
the following lines are projected, with
good prospects of accomplishment:
From Hope, on the Iron Mountain
railroad, in Arkansas, south: TO: shreve-